Rebecca Armitage is the digital producer for the ABC's International Desk. She was previously a multiplatform producer with the ABC's Specialist Reporting Team and a producer at 730. 

THE ABC SHOULD SACK THIS ONE-SIDED BITCH, OR AT LEAST NOT PLACE HER CRAP, UNDER "NEWS". 

I’VE SAID IT. REBECCA LEADS THE ANTI-PUTIN BRIGADE AT THE ABC (AUSTRALIA):

With Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, humiliated again and again on the battlefields of Ukraine, he may be preparing to cash in a favour owed to him by one of his closest allies, Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko. 

I don’t think Premier Dominic Perrottet (“Premier’s joy at young woman’s jail time was ugly”, December 9) sees the irony in his response to the prison sentences given to climate protesters under his government’s recent legislation.

This week’s Scheer Intelligence podcast brings together host Robert Scheer and author and renowned physician Dr. Gabor Maté to talk about Mate’s recent New York Times best-selling book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture,” written with his son, Daniel Maté. After decades of treating thousands of patients in myriad fields, including general family practice and palliative care, Maté began to foster more attention to his work involving stress, addiction and childhood development.

Millions of people will be struggling to stay warm, a charity has warned - as parts of the UK are set to be hit with snow and freezing conditions.

National Energy Action said people faced a "vicious choice" between a cold home and falling into debt.

A remarkable narrative event occurred on Sunday when the Washington Post (WaPo), which is regarded as one of the US’ premier platforms for managing public perceptions and considered to be connected to its national security apparatus, began rehabilitating President Xi’s image. In their piece about how “A more pragmatic Xi Jinping launches a global charm offensive for China”, the outlet praised the Chinese leader for the positive interactions that he shared with his Western counterparts since October.  

Andrew Korybko

December 5 2022

THE MINSK AGREEMENTS WERE A MASSIVE GRAND DECEIT... JULES AND OUR COHORT BELIEVE THAT PUTIN KNEW THIS BUT HE HOPED THAT THEY WOULD WORK NONETHELESS.... WE KNOW THAT WW1 WAS AN ENGLISH CONSPIRACY.  THIS STATEMENT IS A BIT BRUTAL BUT WE CAN EXPLAIN IT BY VISITING THE CORBETT REPORT REPOSTED HERE. 

WHAT OUR FRIEND JULES LETAMBOUR SUSPECTS IS THAT GENERAL DE GAULLE KNEW THAT WW2 WAS ALSO AN ENGLISH/US CONSPIRACY WHICH DID NOT GO ACCORDING TO PLAN, UNTIL THE “HAPPY” ENDING AFTER A HARD SLOG. IT COULD HAVE GONE EITHER WAY, WITHOUT THE RUSSIAN INTERVENTION THAT DEPLETED THE GERMAN ARMIES FAR MORE THAN THE WESTERN OFFENSIVES.

Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud was born October 20, 1854, in the small French town of Charleville. His father, an army captain, abandoned the family when he was six.

A confession by former German chancellor Angela Merkel about the Minsk peace agreements could be used as evidence in a tribunal involving Western politicians responsible for provoking the Ukraine conflict between Moscow and Kiev, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned on Thursday.

The deal, brokered by Germany and France, was supposed to be a roadmap for peace in the war-torn country. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country's current military offensive was prompted by the failure to implement the terms of the accords.

The former German leader admitted in an interview with Die Zeit on Wednesday that the actual purpose of the Minsk agreements was to give Ukraine time to prepare for a military confrontation with Russia.

Wouldn’t it be amusing to see an actual fly-on-the-wall job about Netflix’s new Harry & Meghan documentary? Imagine the scenes behind-the-scenes. The Duchess rehearses her crying face in consultation with her make-up specialist. The Duke glares at himself in a mirror. ‘I had to protect my family,’ he repeats over and over as he fingers his apricot beard. The lighting team try to coax along the impossibly capricious royals only to suffer their own nervous breakdowns after Meghan accuses them of disregarding her mental health.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/war-of-the-windsors-who-will-win-this-round/

THE SPECTATOR IS A RIGHT WING MAGAZINE. THE QUESTION IS “Can a leftie read the Spectator?”

Attacks deep into Russian territory carried out by Ukrainian forces confirm Moscow's fears that are behind the Russian military operation in Ukraine. NATO has plans to use Ukraine as an attack platform against Russia and this is the biggest threat to Russia's security since the USSR was dissolved.

by Luciano Lago

BEFORE READING THE ARTICLE THAT FOLLOWS, PLEASE CONSIDER:

THE WEST IS AFRAID/IRKED OF HAVING TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA.

YET ANY NEGOTIATIONS HAVE TO PLY TO RUSSIA’S FAIR DEMANDS (THESE WON’T CHANGE, EXCEPT IN RUSSIA’S FAVOUR AS THE CONFLICT GOES ON. THE WEST KNOWS THIS):

*NO NATO IN UKRAINE.

*CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN

*THE DONBASS REGIONS ARE NOW RUSSIANS BECAUSE KIEV REFUSED TO ACCEPT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

*FORMALISED WESTERN NON-AGGRESSION AGAINST RUSSIA (AND CHINA).

BIDEN* DOES NOT WANT TO GIVE ANYTHING TO RUSSIA, THUS THERE IS NOTHING TO DISCUSS. 

*BIDEN IS A DUPLICITOUS SENILE IDIOT WHO HAS LONG LOST THE PLOT AND NEEDS A TELEPROMPTER TO THINK.

PUTIN HAS MADE EVERYTHING CLEAR LAST YEAR:

*RESPECT THE MINSK AGREEMENTS

While the US distanced itself from Ukraine’s drone strike at two air bases hundreds of kilometers inside Russia, the German government’s spokesman said on Wednesday that Kiev doesn’t have to limit its war effort to Ukrainian territory.

“Ukraine has a right to self-defense under Article 51 of the UN Charter,”Steffen Hebestreit told journalists, when asked to comment on reports of explosions at the Russian airfields. “Ukraine is not obligated to limit defense efforts to its own territory.”

AS USUAL TIME MAGAZINE FALLS INTO THE SLOP. IN 1936, HITLER WAS ON THE FRONT COVER AND BY 1938, HE WAS THE PERSON OF THE YEAR.

HOPEFULLY, ZELENSKY WILL VANISH IN THE SAME MANNER AS HIS IDOL (HITLER/BANDERA) BEFORE HE SETS THE WORLD ON FIRE. LET’S NOT BE COY ABOUT THIS TURD. HE HAS PUSHED NATO TO START WW3 WITH RUSSIA. HE HAS PUSHED NATO TO USE NUKES AGAINST RUSSIA. PLEASE!

NOTE THAT TIME MAGAZINE HAD TO TART THE COVER UP WITH A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE TO PUSH THE POINT HOME, JUST IN CASE A SIMPLE PHOTO OF VOLODYMYR WOULD NOT SUFFICE.

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will support “tough new laws”targeting labor actions, even suggesting an outright ban on walkouts by certain employees, after thousands of emergency workers announced upcoming strikes demanding pay raises amid soaring inflation.

Addressing MPs on Wednesday, Sunak warned that a wave of imminent strikes in multiple sectors, including healthcare and public transit, would cause major disruptions, saying he is prepared to do “whatever I need to do” to prevent work stoppages in vital industries.

EU nation MP hires witch aide

Many warlocks and witches are actively involved in Latvia’s politics, the witch insists...

Latvian MP Nataļja Marcenko-Jodko has hired a prominent local witch and ‘healer’ as her aide, official data on the website of the country’s parliament – the Saeima – shows. Her name is Sanita Petere, but she is more commonly known as the “White Witch.”

Latvian media outlets reached out to the witch herself for comment, with Petere insisting that the country’s parliament was just the right place for a woman in her line of business.